The Archidamian War
10 best books like The Archidamian War (Donald Kagan): Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President, The Holy Barbarians, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born, Lisa and David, Extravagance, A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays, A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister, Brigadoon (Vocal Score)
| Author | Elizabeth Wurtzel |
| ISBN | 0385484011 |
No one better understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at woman who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning...
| Author | Jacob Weisberg |
| ISBN | 0743222229 |
They misunderestimated me."
Or did they?
Judge for yourself. Here are over 100 memorable misstatements by our syntactically challenged president, collected, annotated, and introduced by Slate magazine's Jacob Weisberg.
"I know the human being and fish can coexist...
This is a Rory book. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
I loved that show, and I found some good titles that eventually became awesome books. So, yes. It's a Rory book... Don't question my sources. (?)
September 27, 2013
Update
Oh, yes. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life will be released...
| Author | Seymour M. Hersh |
| ISBN | 0394714504 |
Investigative journalist Hersh made one of his earliest splashes documenting the My Lai atrocity at the height of the Vietnam War; this short, angry book summarizes his research and findings. Unfortunately for modern readers, it's a leftist polemic that spends as much time trashing the American...
| Author | Dawn Powell |
| ISBN | 1931082014 |
For decades after her death, Dawn Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been renewed awareness of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s. With these two volumes, The Library of America...
| Author | Theodore Isaac Rubin |
| ISBN | 0020535708 |
The opening of America's heinous public Mental Hospitals- or rather the 'closing' of said institutions - began to occur in the 70's, I believe. It was a time where tens of thousands of individuals incarcerated for years or decades for mental health problems - or simply 'put away' because they were inconvenient...
| Author | Gary Krist |
| ISBN | 0767913310 |
William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies.
The city in question is London in the 1690s; but it is...
| Author | Mary McCarthy |
| ISBN | 1590170105 |
Mary McCarthy was one of the leading literary figures of her time. In addition to the novels and memoirs for which she is best remembered, she was also a tireless literary and social critic. Starting out as a theater reviewer for "Partisan Review" in 1937, she quickly distinguished herself for her witty...
| Author | Julie Mars |
| ISBN | 0974207454 |
After witnessing her older sister's losing battle with pancreatic cancer, "her journey though the dark landscape of religious doubt toward her God," Mars was overtaken with a compulsion: she wanted to go to church. So, she dedicated herself to visiting 31 houses of worship over a period of as many weeks....
| Author | Alan Jay Lerner |
| ISBN | 0769202225 |
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| Author | Greg Critser |
| ISBN | 0141015403 |
In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly alarming book. Critser investigates the...
| Author | T.J. Binyon |
| ISBN | 1400076528 |
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate...
| Author | H.L. Mencken |
| ISBN | 0679413154 |
While it does include a very telling look into the life of Mencken and his inner circle of aristocratic literary society, this memoir is very rough and incoherent at times. He includes an insane amount of trivial detail that would bore even the most devoted of Menckophiles--such as hyperspecific details...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1172438099 |
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. ”
― Henry James
The short essay Criticism, the focus of my review, is part of this collection which includes...
| Author | Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor |
| ISBN | 0548869707 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Anne Collet |
| ISBN | 1571312447 |
Tales about the author's encounters with cetaceans and pinnipeds. While stories of this ilk have the potential to veer off into "new agey" territory, these absolutely do not. Collet is a marine biologist and in addition to describing various events in straightforward terms, she also uses her book...
| Author | Jim Irvin |
| ISBN | 1841954381 |
The non-Classical long-player had a good commercial run, and The MOJO Collection, compiled by writers for the UK-published MOJO Magazine, chronologically assembles more than 1,700 definitive LP titles from the format’s history. Using brief but informative essays to highlight each album’s...
| Author | Philip N. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0826215688 |
For more than thirty years the newspaper industry has been losing readers at a slow but steady rate. News professionals are inclined to blame themselves, but the real culprit is technology and its competing demands on the public's time. The Internet is just the latest in a long series of new information...
A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960
| Author | Milton Friedman |
| ISBN | 0691003548 |
Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly...
| Author | Peter Green |
| ISBN | 0520203135 |
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S.
The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its...
| Author | Michael Moore |
| ISBN | 0743272927 |
THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO FAHRENHEIT 9/11
The Cannes Film Festival jury voted unanimously to award the 2004 Best Picture Award to Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11. Since then it has gone on to smash all box office records for a documentary and created an international discussion about the Bush administration...
| Author | Alvin Granowsky |
| ISBN | 0811466345 |
-- The non-traditional version is told through the eyes of the other characters, stimulating critical thought in young readers.
-- Flip-book format physically mimics the "two sides of the story", allowing easy comparisons.
-- Full-color artwork is executed in two distinct styles.
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| Author | Joe Harvard |
| ISBN | 0826415504 |
The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation,...
